Aide-toi, la viralité t’aidera. Ou de la création et diffusion des proverbes dans les médias by Vincenzo Lambertini

“…Thus, I will compare proverbs and virality through contrasting (French-Italian) and interdisciplinary (from biology and virology) approaches, using authentic examples drawn from social media and semi-spontaneous conversations broadcast on radio or television. This study will show not only that virality and proverbs share many features, but also that proverbs can adapt to new realities (which may allow them to evolve in the future without disappearing). …”
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Digging the Digital: Beat Modalities and the Representation of the Beats in Video Games by Tomasz Sawczuk

“…Ever since setting their foot on the social and cultural landscapes of the post-World War II realities, the Beats have been both the subject of and subject to pop-cultural representations and appropriations. …”
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